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The Status of Telecommunications

Competition in California2nd Report

APPENDICES

A. Data Request Surveys

B. Data Request Respondents

C. Telecommunications Glossary

APPENDIX A.

CPUC Data Requests

1. Wireline Data Request #1

2. Wireline Data Request #2

3. Wireless Industry Data Request

4. Cable Industry Data Request

5. DSL Data Request

6. Broadband Cost Data Request

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Wireline Data Request #1(Sent To ILECs)

Please provide the following information.

I. Access Line, Subscribership and Revenue Data

A) Provide the following access line data in California:

As of 6/30/01 As of 3/31/02 1) Total Number of Residential Access Lines 1a) Facilities Based 1b) UNE 1c) Resale 2) Total Number of Business Access Lines 2a) Facilities Based 2b) UNE 2c) Resale 3) Total Number of Other Access Lines1

3a) Facilities Based 3b) UNE 3c) Resale ----------------- -----------------4) Total Number of Access Lines2

4a) Facilities Based 4b) UNE 4c) Resale

1 Other access lines include items that are neither residential nor business access lines, differentiateif applicable between Facilities Based, UNE, and Resale

2 The total number of access lines is automatically calculated from the sum of residential access linesand business access lines your company enters above.

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B) Provide the following intrastate revenue data for California:

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2000 Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2001 Jan. 1 - Mar. 31, 2002Local, residential revenues3

Local, business revenues3

Residential, intraLATA toll revenues4 Business, intraLATA toll revenues4 Residential, interLATA toll revenues5 Business, interLATA toll revenues5 Access Revenues UNE Revenues6

Other revenues7

---------- ---------- ----------Total operating revenues8

3 For local, residential and local business revenues, please include revenues from basic service, directory assistance, and revenues from custom calling features and vertical services, such as voicemail, caller I.D., etc.4 For residential intraLATA toll and business intraLATA toll revenues, please include revenues frompresubscribed customers. These revenues should include any non-usage related charges (e.g. monthlyplan fees) attributable to intrastate service. If the non-usage related charges apply to both intrastateand interstate services, include an appropriate allocation of these charges and explain whatallocation method was used.5 For residential interLATA toll and business interLATA toll revenues, please include revenues frompresubscribed customers. These revenues should include any non-usage related charges (e.g. monthlyplan fees) attributable to intrastate service. If the non-usage related charges apply to both intrastateand interstate services, include an appropriate allocation of these charges and explain whatallocation method was used.6 UNE revenues include revenues from ILECS, CLECS and DLECS/Data Service Providers ordering UNEs from your company. 7 Other revenues consists of items which are neither local, intraLATA toll, interLATA toll, access, nor UNE revenues. Please detail what items you have included in other revenues in item I.G below.8 Total operating revenues will be calculated automatically by summing the local, intraLATA toll, interLATA toll, access, UNE, and other revenues that your company entered above.

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II. ILEC -- Digital Subscriber Lines

As of 6/30/01 As of 3/31/021) Total number of DSL lines provided by you or your affiliate 9 2) UNE xDSL Loops 3) Line Shared xDSL Loops --- ---

9 Total number of DSL lines includes both line sharing and UNE DSL lines

Appendix – Page 5

Wireline Data Request #2(Sent To ILECs)




As of 6/30/02 1) Total Number of Residential Access Lines 1a) Facilities Based 1b) UNE 1c) Resale 2) Total Number of Business Access Lines 2a) Facilities Based 2b) UNE 2c) Resale 3) Total Number of Other Access Lines1

3a) Facilities Based 3b) UNE 3c) Resale -----------------4) Total Number of Access Lines2




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Jan. 1 - June 30, 2002Local, residential revenues3


Residential, intraLATA toll revenues4

Business, intraLATA toll revenues4

Residential, interLATA toll revenues5

Business, interLATA toll revenues5

Access Revenues UNE Revenues6

Other revenues7

----------Total operating revenues8


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II. ILEC -- Digital Subscriber Lines

Jan. 1 - June 30, 20021) Total number of DSL lines provided by you or your affiliate 9 2) UNE xDSL Loops 3) Line Shared xDSL Loops

9 Total number of DSL lines includes both line sharing and UNE DSL lines

III. Company Contact InformationA) Please provide the following information of a staff person from your company who the CPUC cancontact if there are any questions regarding the your response to this data request.

Company Name Contact Name Contact Address Contact Telephone Number Contact Email address

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Wireline Data Request #2(Sent To CLECs)




As of 6/30/02 1) Total Number of Residential Access Lines 1a) Facilities Based 1b) UNE 1c) Resale 2) Total Number of Business Access Lines 2a) Facilities Based 2b) UNE 2c) Resale 3) Total Number of Other Access Lines1

3a) Facilities Based 3b) UNE 3c) Resale -----------------4) Total Number of Access Lines2




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Jan. 1 - June 30, 2002Local, residential revenues3


Residential, intraLATA toll revenues4

Business, intraLATA toll revenues4

Residential, interLATA toll revenues5

Business, interLATA toll revenues5

Access Revenues UNE Revenues6

Other revenues7

----------Total operating revenues8


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II. CLEC --Digital Subscriber Lines

As of 6/30/02 1 Facilities Based Loops 9

2) UNE xDSL Loops 10

3) Line Shared Loops 10

4) Resale ----------3) Total number of DSL lines

9 Self-provisioned DSL lines 10 Number of DSL lines not facilites based


Wireless IndustryData Request


Section I. Data for Wireless Voice Products and Services

A) Provide California subscribership information for your company's wireless voice activities in California:

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1996

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1997

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1998

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1999

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2000

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2001

Jan. 1 - June 30, 2002

Total Number of Residential Subscribers Total Number of Business Subscribers

Total Number of Subscribers (See Note 1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Note 1: The total number of subscribers is automatically calculated from the sum of residential and business subscribers your company enters above.

B) Provide the following intrastate revenue data for your company's wireless voice activities in California:

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1996

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1997

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1998

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1999

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2000

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2001

Jan. 1 - June 30, 2002

Residential Revenues Business Revenues Other Revenues (See Note 2)

Total Operating Revenues (See Note 3) $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Note 2: Other revenues consists items which are neither residential nor business revenues.Note 3: Total operating revenues will be calculated automatically by summing the residential,business, and other revenues your company enters above.


C) Please indicate which types of geographic areas of California your company currently does wirelessvoice business in and the relative percentage in each.

Urban/ High Population Density Areas __________

Rural/ Low Population Density Areas __________

D) If your company does not currently provide wireless voice service to rural/ low population density areas of of California, does your company have plans to do business in those areas? [Check only one.]

Yes __________ (If Yes, go to question E below.)No __________ (If No, skip to question F.)

E) When does your company plan to begin offering wireless voice services within rural/lowpopulation density areas of California? [Check only one.]

0 to 6 months __________ 6 to 12 months __________

12 to 18 months __________ 18 to 24 months __________

F) Please indicate which California regions (by zip code) your customers are located in.Note: Use additional lines or sheets as needed.]

Percent PercentResidential Business

Zip Code Customers Customers_____________ _______% _______%_____________ _______% _______%_____________ _______% _______%

G) Please indicate and describe areas within zip codes where your wireless voice signals do not reach because of the terrain, buildings, or similar obstacles. (Please provide Service Coverage Maps even if they do not illustrate coverage at the level of zip codes.)


Section II. Advanced Services -- Fixed Wireless Broadband

A) Does your company offer fixed wireless service to customers?

Yes __________ [If Yes, go to question B below and continue.]No, we have no plans to. __________ [Skip to Section III.]

No, but we are planning to. __________ [Skip to Section III.]

B) Describe your company's fixed wireless products/services, associated target audiences, and prices.

Product/Service #1:Target Audience(s):Prices:




C) Provide data on fixed wireless customer subscribership for California for the specified time period.

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1996

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1997

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1998

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1999

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2000

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2001

Jan. 1 - June 30, 2002

Total number of Residential, fixed wireless subscribers

Total number of Business, fixed wireless subscribers

Total number of fixed wireless subscribers (See Note 4) Note 4: The total number of fixed wireless subscribers is automatically calculated from the sum of residential

and business, fixed wireless subscribers your company enters above.

D) Provide the following fixed wireless revenue data for your company for California:


Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1996

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1997

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1998

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 1999

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2000

Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2001

Jan. 1 - June 30, 2002

Residential revenues Business revenues

Other revenues (See Note 5)

Total operating revenues (See Note 6) Note 5: Other revenues consists items which are neither residential nor business revenues.

Note 6: Total operating revenues will be calculated automatically by summing the residential,

business, and other revenues your company enters above.

E) Please indicate which types of geographic areas in California your company currently does fixed wireless business in and the relative percentage of business in each.

Urban/High Population Density Areas _______%

Rural/ Low Population

Density Areas _______%

F) If your company does not currently provide fixed wireless broadband to rural/ low population density areas of California, does your company have plans to do business in those areas? [Check only one.]

Yes __________ [If Yes, go to question G below.]No __________ [If No, skip to question I.]

G) When does your company plan to begin offering fixed wireless broadband services within rural/lowpopulation density areas of California? [Check only one.]

0 to 6 months __________6 to 12 months __________

12 to 18 months ______________18 to 24 months __________


H) Please indicate which California regions (by zip code) your fixed wireless broadband customers are located in. [Use additional lines or sheets as needed.]

Percent PercentResidential Business

Zip Code Customers Customers_____________ _______% _______%_____________ _______% _______%_____________

I) Please indicate and describe areas within zip codes where your fixed wireless broadband signals do not reach because of the terrain, buildings, or similar obstacles.

Section III. Other Advanced Service

A) Does your company offer satellite broadband?

Yes __________ No, we have no plans to. __________ No, but we are planning to. __________

B) Does your company offer any wireless networking services, such as WiFi?

Yes __________No, we have no plans to. __________

No, but we are planning to. __________

Section IV. Company Contact Information

A) Please provide the following contact information for a staff person(s) that the CPUC cancontact if there are any questions regarding the your response to this data request.

Company Name Contact Name(s) Contact Address Telephone Number

Email address


Cable IndustryData Request

1. Identify each of your franchising areas and the associated franchising authority, as well as contact information for that authority.

2. Provide the number of housing units in each franchising area, as well as how that number is determined.

3. For each franchising area, provide the number of residential customers capable of subscribing to the following service scenarios:

a) Cable TV onlyb) Cable modem onlyc) Cable telephony onlyd) Cable TV and cable modeme) Cable TV and cable telephonyf) Cable TV, cable modem and cable telephonyg) Cable modem and cable telephony

4. For each franchising area, provide the number of residential customers currently subscribing to the following service scenarios:


5. Provide the number of possible business customers in each franchising area, as well as how that number is determined.


6. For each franchising area, provide the number of business customers capable of subscribing to the following service scenarios:


7. For each franchising area, provide the number of business customers currently subscribing to the following service scenarios:


8. Provide descriptions and rate information for all cable modem and cable telephony service-offerings in each franchising area, including offerings provided on a stand-alone basis and those bundled with cable television service.

9. Provide digitized graphic representation files (e.g. GIS) of your service coverage areas and indicate the areas in which you provide analog cable, digital cable, cable modem and/or cable telephony.

10.For areas not currently capable of receiving cable modem services, provide your best forecast or estimate of when you will be able to provide them cable modem service.

11.Provide the total mileages of your coax cable plant by franchise area and distinguish between two-way and one-way capable coax cable.

12.Provide the total mileages of your fiber cable plant by franchising area.

13.Provide the number of headends for each franchising area.


DSL Data Request

1. Provide a list of all central offices, associated remote terminals, controlled environmental vaults and huts. The information should include common language location identifier (CLLI), metropolitan serving area, physical address and zipcode; as well as V&H coordinates (e.g. LERG type of information).

2. Provide a list of all above ground remote terminals and huts, including all below ground controlled environmental vaults installed by year from 1990 to the present, by size (e.g. 6’ x 9’, 10’ x 16’, 16’ x 24’, etc.) The information should include the associated central office and metropolitan serving area.

3. Provide manufacturer, type and model for each next generation digital loop carrier (NGDLC) and digital loop carrier (DLC) installed in each remote terminal, controlled environmental vaults and hut with associated central office. Include the number of DSL customers served for each location and include 5 year forecasted line card and channel bank growth, distinguishing between voice and data.

4. Provide quantity of digital subscriber-line asynchronous multiplexer (DSLAMs) installed and associated forecasted growth by chassis or line card per year for the next 5 years per central office. Include manufacturer, type and model as well as total and utilized ports.

5. Provide a list of all ATM/IP switches installed by central office. The information should include manufacturer, model, and type of switch. Include forecasted growth per year for the next 5 years.

6. Provide a list that shows the location of each Internet gateway router in your footprint.

7. Provide GIS compatible information on fiber network and Sonet rings that is used to transport DSL data within your footprint.

8. Provide the quantity of retail DSL (separate out line sharing from second line), ISDN, and TI connections for each central office that you provide and the quantity of your competitors’ DSL, ISDN, and T1 connections for each central office.

9. Provide a description of the types of data services you provide to small, medium, large business customers by central office. Include your definition of small, medium, large, and enterprise customer.

10.Provide the total number of residential households and business customers you service for voice in California sorted by central office. Include your definition of “household”.

11.Provide the number of households capable of receiving central office DSLAM based DSL service and the number of actual central office based DSL customers by central office.


12.Provide the number of households capable of receiving project pronto DSL service and the number of actual project pronto customers by central office.

13.Provide the number of households within 12 Kft. of the central office and the number of households beyond 12 Kft., by central office.

14.Please provide a GIS file that delineates the areas within your service area that are capable of receiving xDSL service.


Broadband CostData Request

DEFINITIONS:

‘Documents’ refers to all writing or records of every type in your possession, control or custody, including, but not limited to: testimony, presentations and exhibits (before the CPUC, FCC, State Legislature, Venture Capitalists or Investment Banks), memoranda, correspondence, letters, reports (including drafts, preliminary, intermediate, and final reports), surveys, written analyses, studies, summaries, pamphlets, books, charts, tabulations, notes, photographs, maps, bulletins, diaries, transcripts, microfilm, microfiche, computer data, e-mails, computer files, computer tapes, computer inputs, computer outputs and printouts, accounting statements, workpapers, engineering diagrams, speeches, and all other records in the last three years. This definition also includes any attachments or appendices to a document.

‘Broadband Product and/or Service’ – A descriptive term for evolving digital technologies that provide consumers with integrated access to voice, high-speed data service, video-demand services and interactive delivery services. (eg. DSL, Cable, fixed wireless, satellite etc.)

NOTE: These services could be both interstate as well as intrastate services. Unlike FCC’s definition, this definition does not presume a threshold speed (such as 200kbps in each direction). Hence ‘broadband services’ for the purposes of this data request may include services that provide voice, data and video service at speeds lower than 200kbps but that are represented as ‘broadband services’ by your company to your customers.

QUESTIONS

15.Please provide a list of all broadband products and services (such as ATM service, DSL service, Frame-relay service etc.) that your company can provide to businesses and residences in California. Please indicate whether the services can be provided on a line-sharing basis, whether they are tariffed at the CPUC, whether they are interstate or intrastate tariffs and any other characteristics of the service. Please provide the data in an excel spreadsheet and in the format specified in the table below.

Name of the Broadband Product/ Service

Business (B)/ Residence (R)/ or both (B,R)

Do you need to lease/share any lines with the incumbent

Is it tariffed on an interstate or intrastate basis (InterState

Is a copy of the tariffs filed at the CPUC (Yes/No)

Service Charac-teristics (eg: Speed in kbps or Mbps)


local carrier to provision this service (Yes/No)

/IntraState)

Service #1Service #2Service #316.Please provide a list of names, addresses and telephone numbers of

Venture Capital, Investment Banking and any other financing firms that you have approached in the past in order to finance the provision of ‘broadband services’ identified in response to question 1.

17.Please provide copies of Business Plans and Valuations of broadband services and all other ‘documents’ submitted to either Venture Capital firms or to Investment Banking firms or internally to the Company Board of Directors to raise either debt or equity capital to finance the provision of ‘broadband services’ identified in response to question 1. If you have already provided any of these ‘documents’ to the Commission, please indicate the report name and number, proceeding/docket number and filing date.

18.Please state total annual investments in broadband related infrastructure (book value) to date. What proportion of this investment is financed by long-term debt, common equity, preferred stock and short term debt? Please provide this data for each year and each service identified in response to question 1. Please provide the data for each service in an excel spreadsheet and in the format specified in the table below:

Investments for Service #1

Long term Debt (corporate level)

Common Equity (corporate level)

Preferred Equity (corporate level)

Short-term debt (corporate level)

Total Investment(for each service)

Y1996 (historical)Y1997 (historical)Y1998 (historical)Y1999 (historical)


Y2000 (historical)Y2001 (historical)Y2002 (forecast)Y2003 (forecast)Y2004 (forecast)

19.Please provide revenues, units sold & cash flows (as measured by EBITDA=Earnings before interest, depreciation, amortization and tax), for the past 6 years, earned from each broadband service, as identified in response to question 1, as well as projections for the next 5 years. Please provide the data in an excel spreadsheet and in the format specified in the tables below

Broadband Service

Historical Revenues & Units sold Forecast Revenues & units sold

Y1996

Y1997

Y1998

Y1999 Y2000

Y2001

Y2002

Y2003

Y2004

Y2005

Y2006

Service #1Service #2Broadband Service

Historical cash flows (EBITDA) Forecast cash flows (EBITDA)

Y1996

Y1997

Y1998

Y1999 Y2000

Y2001

Y2002

Y2003

Y2004

Y2005

Y2006

Service #1


Service #2

20.Please describe all the elements that are necessary and sufficient to provision each broadband service, as identified in response to question 1, including and not limited to collocation, loop, transport/backbone, OSS, Maintenance/Repair and marketing/advertising. Which of these elements would you lease (leased elements) from other carriers and which would you build facilities for yourself?

21.For each service and element in the list, as identified in response to question 6, please provide the cost (both recurring and non-recurring of either leasing or setting up the facility). Please provide the data in an excel spreadsheet and in the format specified in the table below. Please provide a reference to the source ‘document’ where available. Please define and list all the modeling assumptions (such as discount factor and forecast period used to amortize non-recurring costs, scaling factors used, units used, take rates, penetration rates, turnover rates etc.)

Costs of the UNE element lease rate or facilities rate per unit

Service #1 (eg. Residential DSL)

Average Recurring Costs

per unit

Monthly amortized Non-Recurring Costs

Elements leased to provision Service #1

Element #1(UNE Name – eg. HFPL)Element #2Element #3

Facilities based elements necessary to provision Service #1

Element #1 (Name of the facility)Element #2Element #3

Service #2 (eg. Frame Relay) Recurring Costs Non-Recurring Costs

UNEs….. ElementsFacilities….. Elements

22.Question 7 above, asks for ‘average’ recurring and non-recurring costs. It would help us get a better understanding of the distribution of these costs if you provide us with high, low and medium estimates of these costs. Assuming that there is variation in costs by region, please provide separately high, low and medium (or just high and low) range estimates as


presented in the table below. Please also provide an approximate %age of total units that might be deployed/provisioned in regions corresponding to the high, medium, low costs. Please provide the data in an excel spreadsheet and in the format specified in the table below.

Service #1 (eg. Residential DSL)

Recurring Costs per unit

Amortized Non-Recurring Costs per unit

%age of Units deployed or provisioned

Elements leased to provision Service #1

Element #1 (H)

(high estimate)

(high estimate)

Element #1 (M)

(med estimate)

(med estimate)

Element #1 (L) (low estimate)

(low estimate)

Facilities based elements to provision Service #2

Element #1 (H)

(high estimate)

(high estimate)

Element #1 (M)

(med estimate)

(med estimate)

Element #1 (L) (low estimate)

(low estimate)

23.Please provide copies of any costing studies, prepared by you or by a third party and that are available off-the-shelf, for the provision of ‘broadband services’ identified in response to question 1.


APPENDIX B.

Data Request Respondents


Wireline Data RequestRespondents

ILECs Calaveras Citizens Telecom (IEC) O1 CommunicationsCal-Ore Telephone Claricom OLS IncCenturyTel of Eastern Oregon Comcast Business Communic One Call InternetCitizens - Golden State ComData One Star Long DistanceCitizens - Tuolumne COMM SOUTH Openpop ComCitizens- California Competitive Communication OPENTELDucor Comtech 21 Operator Service Co.Evans Concert Communications Sales Pac WestForesthill Covad Communications Paetec CommHappy Valley Telephone COX Pinnacles Long DistanceHornitos Telephone Cybernet Communications PNGKerman Dancris PrimusPinnacles Dial Long Distance QuantumShiftPonderosa Telephone Dialink Quick Tel., Inc.Roseville Direct One LLC Qwest

SBCDPI Reduced Rate Long

DistanceSierra Telephone DSLnet Resort Network ServicesSiskiyou Telephone EasyLink RSL COM USA Inc.Verizon California Electric Lightwave Inc. SharenetVerizon West eMeritus Communications SierraTel Long Distance

VolcanoEnhanced Communications Network

Siskiyou Long Distance

Winterhaven Telephone Excel Communications Smoke Signal Comm. Extelcom Sprint Communications Co. CLECs EZ SureWest BroadbandA.R.C. Networks Inc. First World Talk AmericaACC Telecom FOCAL TCGAccess Point Fones 4 All Corp. TCNAdelphia Telecommunications FoxTel, Inc. Teach Comm. Inc.Affinity Network Futur Telecom America Teleuno Inc.Affordable Voice Genesis TeligentAllcom

GlobalcomToledo Area Telecom. Services, Inc.

Allegiance GTC Touch Communications

American Farm Bureau, Inc.HighSpeed Trans National

CommunicationsAmerican Fiber Network IDT America United Communications

Hub

American Long Lines I-Link communications Inc.United States Advanced Network

AmeriVision Intellicall Operator Services, Inc.

United States Telesis

Arrival International Plus UnivanceASI Inter-Tel Net Solutions Universal AccessAsian American Association ITC^DeltaCom US TelepacificAstound Broadband ITS Omnicom VarTec Telecom Inc.AT&T KDD America, Inc. Verizon Advanced DataAtlas Legacy Long Distance Verizon Enterprise Bell South Long Distance inc Level 3 Verizon LDBig Planet Longdistance Wholesale Club Verizon Select ServicesBroadwing Comm. Services Inc. Matrix Volcano LDBroadwing Telcom. McLeodUSA Vycera Communications Inc.Business Discount Plan Net One International Working AssetsBusiness Telcom Inc. NetLojix World Exchange


Cal- Long DistanceNetwork Communications International

WorldCom

Cale-Ore LD Network Enhanced Technology XO CommunicationsCale-TEL LD New Century Telecom Xtension Serices, Inc.CBC Inc. Norlight Telecom Yestel Inc.Cbeyond Communications Norstan Network ZenexCF Communications NOSVA Limited Z-TelCiera Networks NTT Communications

Wireless Data Request Respondents

Cable Data Request Respondents

DSL Data Request Respondents

AT&T Wireless Adelphia CalaverasCal North Cellular AT&T Broadband CAl-Ore TelephoneCingular Wireless Cable America Century Tel of East OregonCricket Communications / Leap Wireless

Cox Communications Citizens (California)

IrriDigital NPG Cable Citizens (golden state)San Diego Cellular RCN Telecom Services, Inc. Citizens (Tuolumne)Sprint PCS San Simeon Community Cable DucorSureWest Wireless / West Coast Wireless

Seren Innovations Evans Telephone

T-Mobile Time Warner ForesthillVerizon Wireless Happy Valley TelephoneWorking Assets Hornitos

KermanPacific Bell & ASIPinnaclesPonderosaSierraSiskiyouSureWestVerizon CommunicationsVerizon West CoastVolcanoWinterhaven Telephone



Broadband Cost Data RequestRespondents

ILECs CLECs & IECs

Rural ILECs participating in the NECA (National Exchange Carrier Association) revenue and cost recovery pool for DSL and other advanced data services:

Roseville Telephone Company (Surewest Group)

360networks (Usa), Inc. Cal-Ore Telephone Co.

SBC, California, Inc 8x8, Inc. Calaveras Telephone Co.The Citizens Group, California Inc (Frontier Group)

Access Network Services, Inc.Evans Telephone Co.

Verizon California, IncAllegiance Telecom Of California, Inc. Kerman Telephone CompanyAltrio Communications, Inc. Ponderosa Telephone Co.Apex Telecom, Inc. Sierra Telephone Company, Inc.At&T Broadband Phone Of California, Llc

Siskiyou Telephone Co.

At&T Communications Of California, Inc Volcano Telephone Co.

ILEC Data AffiliatesBrooks Fiber Comms. Of Bakersfield Inc. (And Of Fresno, Sacramento, San Jose, Stockton)

Electric Lightwave, Inc (Frontier group)

Covad Communications

SBC- ASI, Inc Cox California Cable, Llc.Surewest Broadband Cox California Telcom Ii, Llc.VADI, Inc. Dancris Telecom, LlcVerizon Select Services, Inc. Dslnet Communications, Llc

Highspeed Communications Of CaliforniaIntermedia Communications Inc.Itc-Deltacom (Deltacom Long Distance)Level 3 Communications, LlcMci Worldcom Communications, Inc.Mci Worldcom Network Services, Inc.Mercednet, Inc.

Rural ILECsMetropolitan Fiber Systems Of Ca. Inc.

The Citizens Golden State Inc. (or Frontier Group)

Mfs Globenet, Inc

The Citizens Toulumne California Inc. (or Frontier Group)

Mpower Communications Corp.

Onestar Long Distance, Inc.Pac-West Telecommunications, Inc.Paetec Communications, IncPng (Powernetglobal) Telecommunications, Inc.Qwest Communications CorporationQwest Interprise America, Inc.Seren Innovations, Inc


Smartcitynetworks, Inc.Sprint Communications Company, L.P.Teleconnect Long Distance Svcs & SysteTti Telecommunications Inc.Universal Access, IncUs Telepacific Corp (Dba Telepacific Co)


APPENDIX C.

Telecommunications Glossary


Telecommunications Glossary

3G Third Generation: Intended to be the next great wireless technology, wideband mobile services and applications offering users faster access to the Web.

Access Revenues

Revenues from Access services.

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line. DSL service with a larger portion of the capacity devoted to downstream communications, less to upstream. Typically thought of as a residential service.

Advanced Services

Advanced services enable users to send and receive large amounts of information. The FCC defines advanced services as “high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications that enable users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video using any technology.”

Bandwidth The amount of data transmitted in a given amount of time; usually measured in bits per second, kilobits per second, and megabits per second.

Bit A single unit of data, either a one or a zero. In the world of broadband, bits are used to refer to the amount of transmitted data. A kilobit (kb) is approximately 1000 bits. A megabit (Mb) is approximately 1,000,000 bits.

Broadband A descriptive term for evolving digital technologies that provide consumers with integrated access to voice, high-speed data service, video-demand services, and interactive delivery services. (e.g. DSL, Cable Internet)

Business Access Line

Telephone line from business customer premise to central office. Commonly referred to as local loop.

Cable Modem A cable modem is a device that enables a user to connect a personal computer to a local cable television line and receive data at a speed of up to 1.5 Mbps and above depending on the cable provider. Cable modem Internet access is shared with other users in the same neighborhood, which reduces the speed as the number of users increases. Cable modem service is offered on the same basic infrastructure as multi-channel video service but it requires equipment upgrades to support broadband connections.

Category 1 Category 1 consists of those services deemed to be basic monopoly services. Prices and charges for services are set or changed only upon Commission approval.


Category 2 Includes discretionary or partially competitive services for which the local exchange carrier retains significant, though declining, market power. Prices and charges for services are set only upon Commission approval.

Category 3 Category 3 consists of fully competitive services. The Commission determines that no Commissio oversigh of priceing is needed to protect consumers of these competitive services because market forces give rise to pricing efficiency. Upward and downward fproce fleixibility exists, provided certain notice requirements are met.

Cellular A mobile communications system that uses a combination of radio transmission and conventional telephone switching to permit telephone communication to and from mobile users within a specified area.

Central Office A circuit switch where the phone lines in a geographical area come together, usually housed in a small building.

CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier: Wireline service provider that is authorized under state and federal rules to compete with ILECs to provide local telephone service. CLECs provide telephone servies in one of three ways or a combination thereof: a) by building or rebuilding telecommunications facilities of their own, b) by leasing capacity from another local telephone company (typically an ILEC) and reselling it and c) by leasing discreet parts of the ILEC network referred to as UNEs.

Coaxial Cable A type of cable that can carry large amounts of bandwidth over long distances. Cable TV and cable modem service both utilize this cable

Competitive Access Provider (CAP)

(CAP, or "Bypass Carrier") A company that provides network links between the customer and the Inter-Exchange Carrier or even directly to the Internet Service Provider. CAPs operate private networks independent of Local Exchange Carriers.

CPCN Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity: Authorization given by the CPUC to telecommunications carriers in order to provide service in the state of California.

CPUC California Public Utilities Commission

Customer ShareCustomer share is the portion of all customers a company has. It is measured by subscribership, lines and/or telephone numbers.

DLEC Data Local Exchange Carrier. DLECs deliver high-speed access to the Internet, not voice. DLECs include Covad, NorthPoint and Rhythms.

Downstream Data flowing from the Internet to a computer (Surfing the net, getting E-mail, downloading a file).


DSL Digital Subscriber Line: DSL delivers data at high speeds over ordinary copper telephone lines. DSL can carry both voice and data signals. DSL is distance-restricted, capable of providing services to customers up to 18,000 feet away.

DSL lite Also known as G.lite, this is a version of ADSL that uploads and downloads at speeds that are among the slower of the implementations.

FCC Federal Communications Commission

Fixed Wireless Fixed wireless broadband technology uses an antenna placed on or in a building to send and receive data. The data is transmitted to and from the building via a city's wireless network, which consists of antenna towers placed three to five miles apart. If a home or building isn't in a city with wireless service, the occupants won't be able to get fixed wireless broadband. Wireless speeds are currently comparable to ADSL; however, the theoretical maximum is much higher. Wireless is also an always-on connection that doesn't tie up the phone line. Wireless is a little more expensive than ADSL or cable.

GSM Global System for Mobile Communication. This is the current radiotelephone standard in Europe and many other countries except Japan and the United States.

IEC Inter-Exchange Carrier: Typically defined as a long-distance telephone company. IECs provide long distance services to customers between LATAs by using their own facilities or by reselling to their customers the long distance services they have purchased from another carrier.

ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier: The traditional wireline telephone service providers within defined geographic areas. Prior to 1996, ILECs operated as monopolies having the exclusive right and responsibility for providing local and local toll telephone service within LATAs. ILECs include regional Bell operating companies such as Pacific Bell/ SBC and non-Bell affiliated companies such as Roseville Telephone Company, both in California.

InterLATA Between local access and transport areas (LATAs). Services, revenues, and functions associated with telecommunications that originate in one LATA and that terminate in another one or that terminate outside of that LATA. InterLATA services are often thought of as long distance services.

InterLATA Toll Revenues

Revenues attributable to interstate service charges from end-user customers, including presubscribed customers.

IntraLATA Within the boundaries of a local access and transport area


(LATA). IntraLATA services typically include local and local toll services.

IntraLATA Toll Revenues

Revenues attributable to intrastate service charges including presubscribed customers.

IP Telephony Evolving, packet-based systems that can more efficiently move voice and data traffic simultaneously via the Internet. IP telephony technology represents a lower cost alternative to circuit-switches for providing (mostly residential) local service.

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network: An alternative method to simultaneously carry voice, data and other traffic, using the switched telephone network.

ISP Internet Service Provider: A company providing Internet access to consumers and businesses, acting as a bridge between customer (end-user) and infrastructure owners for dial-up, cable modem and DSL services.

kbps Kilobits per second: 1000 bits per second. A measure of how fast data can be transmitted.

LATA Local Access and Transport Area: A geographical area within which a divested Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) is permitted to offer exchange telecommunications and exchange access services.

Local Loop A generic term for the connection between the customer's premises (home, office, etc.) and the provider's serving central office. Historically, this has been a wire connection; however, wireless options are increasingly available for local loop capacity.

Local Residential & Business Revenues

Revenues from basic service, directory assistance, customer calling features, and vertical services.

Market Share of California

Market share for California is the total lines and revenues of 162 carriers comprised of 22 ILECs and 140 CLECs.

Market Share within ILEC's franchise area

Both Pacific and Verizon were compared to CLECs. For this purpose, all 140 CLECs' data was aggregated and compared to the ILECs’. To calculate this percentage the assumption used here was that all the CLECs' revenues and lines are in that one ILECs region, e.g. all 140 CLECs' access lines are within Pacific's territory. This percentage over estimates the amount of CLEC competition but is consistent between Pacific and Verizon.

Mbps Megabits per second: 1,000,000 bits per second. . A measure of how fast data can be transmitted.


NRF Adopted in 1989, the New Regulatory Framework (NRF) is the Commission's designation for a price cap form of regulation that is used to regulate California's four largest ILECs (Pacific Bell, Verizon California, Roseville Telephone Company, and Citizens Telephone Company of California). Previously, these ILECs were regulated under traditional cost of service rate of return regulation, which required substantial Commission oversight.The NRF relies on a profit incentive to motivate utilities to operate in the most efficient way possible in order to maximize revenues. Under price caps, the price of utility services are delinked from costs. The utility is allowed to earn a higher rate of return than under rate of return regulation to provide the profit incentive.

Number PortingNumber porting allows customers to switch between telephone service providers while retaining their original telephone number. Also called Local Number Portability (LNP).

Other Access Line

Facilities used to provide wireline telecommunications service that are neither residential nor business access lines. Example: Coin lines and non-switched access lines.

Other Revenues Revenue which are neither local, intraLATA toll, interLATA toll, access, nor UNE. Example of other revenues are: Billing and Collection, COPT, COIN, Customer Premise Equipment, Directory, Regulatory and Settlements, Resale, Uncollectables, CHCF-A&B, Universal Service Payments.

Paging A one-way communications service from a base station to mobile or fixed receivers that provide signaling or information transfer by such means as tone, tone-voice, tactile, and optical readout. Two-way paging allows the user to send data as well as receive it. In some cases, a two-way pager can serve as an alternative to a cellular telephone.

PCS Personal Communications Service: A low-powered, high frequency (1.9 GHz) alternative to traditional cellular service, including CDMA and GSM.

PDA Personal Digital Assistant: A handheld device that combines computing, telephone/fax, Internet and networking features. A typical PDA can function as a cellular phone, fax sender, Web browser and personal organizer. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PDA.html

POTS “Plain Old Telephone Service:” Basic telephone service, including dial tone, the ability to place and receive voice/data calls over the same basic lines.

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network: See "Switched Network"


RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company: A telecommunications carrier created to provide local service after the divestiture of AT&T in 1984. While there were initially 7 RBOCs created 1984, due to mergers there are now four: BellSouth, SBC, US West/Qwest, Verizon.

Resale The practice of carriers purchasing of telecommunications services from another carrier at wholesale rates and, then, reselling those services to their own customers at retail rates.

Residential Access Line

Telephone line from residential customer premise to central office. Commonly referred to as local loop.

RTU Remote Terminal Unit: The location at which there is a transition between a telecommunications carrier facility and the local lines serving the individual customers

Satellite Broadband

Satellite broadband uses a 24”x36” dish mounted on or near a house or building to send and receive data from satellites orbiting 22,300 miles above the Earth. The dish must have a clear, unobstructed view of the southern sky. Two standard coaxial cables connect the satellite dish antenna to a PC or a StarBand satellite modem. The antenna both sends requests to the Internet and receives Internet content via the satellite. Because this service is available immediately in most location, satellite broadband is a good option in places where cable modem and DSL connections are not available, particularly rural areas.

Section 271 Section 271 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act allows certain Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs[1]) to enter the long distance market after they each prove that they have opened their respective local markets to competition.


Subscribership Subscribership is how many customers have subscribed for a particular telecommunications service.

Switched Network

A domestic telecommunications network usually accessed by telephones, key telephone systems, private branch exchange trunks, and data arrangements. (Also PSTN – Public Switched Telephone Network)

TA'96 The Telecommunications Act of 1996: TA ’96 gives the FCC general rulemaking authority to set the ground rules and policies for local competition. It also assigns states the responsibility for implementing many of the statutory and federal regulatory requirements of the Act, either jointly with the FCC or on their own.

TD The Telecommunications Division of the California Public Utilities Commission

Total # of Access Lines

Sum of Residential + Business + Other Access lines.

Total Operating Revenues

Sum of Local, IntraLATA toll, InterLATA toll, UNE, and Other revenues.

Unbundling The term used to describe the access provided by local exchange carriers so that other service providers can buy or lease portions of its network elements, such as interconnection loops, to serve subscribers.

UNE Unbundled Network Elements: Leased portions of a carrier’s (typically an ILEC’s) network used by another carrier to provide service to customers.

UNE Revenues Revenues received from carriers for unbundled network elements.

UNE-P Unbundled Network Element Platform, or UNE-P, refers to the combination of infrastructure elements - including unbundled loops, switches, and transport elements - that CLECs must acquire to provide local telephone service to customers. By reducing the cost and time of provisioning service, UNE-P enables CLECs to provide local service in regions normally serviced by ILECs. A CLEC utilizing a UNE-P does not have to lease space in the ILEC central office but instead leases the network elements necessary to provide service from the ILEC. The UNE-P CLEC usually leases a copper loop, a port on the ILEC switch, and a connection to the CLEC's point-of-presence.(FCC 01-361a1 1st Triennial Review, mimeo p22.).


Upstream Data flowing from your computer to the Internet (sending E-mail, uploading a file).

Wireless Telephone service transmitted via cellular, PCS, satellite, or other technologies that do not require the telephone to be connected to a land-based line.

Wireless Internet

1) Internet applications and access using mobile devices such as cell phones and palm devices.2) Broadband Internet service provided via wireless connection, such as satellite or tower transmitters. (Also Wireless Broadband)

Wireline Service based on infrastructure on or near the ground, such as copper telephone wires or coaxial cable underground or on telephone poles.


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